Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 22:54 on the 3rd of November 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...4/how-different-is-your-world/
Tags: 
Australian educationfuture schooling
This YouTube video talks about the world in 2025. The link if you can't play the video in screen. It asks some pertinent questions that affect all of us in the education business: will there be classrooms? will there be libraries? will there be tea...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:11 on the 24th of March 2009 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...rizon-report-2009-k12-edition/
Tags: online technologiesAustralian educationfuture schooling
The first ever Horizon Report for the K12 sector describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education. ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 01:30 on the 25th of November 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...urdoch-speaks-about-education/
Tags: Australian educationinnovationfuture schoolingchanges in education
Here are some links to some of the things Rupert Murdoch has said recently about Australian education and our national future. Education is a global currency An article in the Australian newspaper in which he says that business companies need to take a mo...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 05:25 on the 21st of November 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...008/11/21/the-importance-of-7/
Tags: teaching and learningAustralian educationfuture schooling
It is interesting to reflect on the number 7: 7 days of the week, the 7 Deadly Sins, the 7 Wonders of the ancient world, and now the 7 skills today's students desperately need. Tony Wagner addressed the US State Educational Technology Directors Associatio...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:07 on the 28th of October 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...9/the-state-of-the-revolution/
Tags: Australian educationfuture schoolingchanges in educationdigital education revolution
28 October, ABC's Australia Talks, Education Revolution. - podcast of the programme available. The preamble: The Rudd government says it's committed to establishing Australia as one of the world's most highly educated and skilled nations. Prime Minister ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 02:48 on the 15th of May 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...tion-things-will-be-different/
Tags: online technologiesAustralian educationlearning environmentsweb 2.0future schoolingdigital education revolution
A discussion here yesterday with colleagues at education.au got me thinking about how different things might be once you can assume that every Year 9-12 secondary student has access to a computer all the time while at school. One of our group commented th...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 23:47 on the 10th of April 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...ng-the-21st-century-classroom/
Tags: schoolsAustralian educationfuture schoolingchanges in education
Once again I've borrowed the title of this blog from elsewhere, this time from a news item from eSchoolNews who have put together some stories about how some schools are transforming the use of technology in classrooms. Preparing today's youth to succeed ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 04:33 on the 3rd of April 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...iscussion-inclusive-education/
Tags: Australian educationlearning environmentsfuture schoolinginclusiveness
International discussions like this one are important for Australian educators, to increase our understanding of global education problems. You will see below that Theme number 5 is a forum for for children and young people to exchange their views. Perhap...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 02:26 on the 15th of February 2008 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...ther-language-day-21-february/
Tags: teaching and learningAustralian educationlifelong learningfuture schoolingmother tongueindigenous languages
In 1999 UNESCO proclaimed 21 February as The International Mother Language Day, to be observed throughout the world. The day is celebrated to promote mother tongues and encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education. Activities during the event ...
Blog: You are Never Alone
Posted: 04:55 on the 18th of December 2007 UTC
URL: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/...tralia-on-the-verge-of-change/
Tags: schoolsAustralian educationfuture schooling
I've been listening to an ABC podcast, a Background Briefing, that says the Australian public primary school system in real danger of disappearing - small state primary schools to be replaced by bigger schools, a new kind of primary school coming - re...
